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...Callinan, injured during much of the season, provided the offensive spark, leading all rushers with 73 yards on 18 carries, and scoring a touchdown on a second-quarter aerial connection from senior quarterback Burke St. John. And defensive back Pete Coppinger, another sophomore, picked off two passes to anchor the defense...
After accepting the degree, Cronkite will attend a luncheon here with his wife before returning to New York to anchor the CBS evening news. He will miss his June 4 broadcast...
...third possibility is even more frightening to liberal activists. If the new voters coalesce into a third bloc, perhaps running their own slates for City Council and school committee, they may go even farther to the right. "At least if they're in the CCA, there is an anchor from the people already involved there," Sullivan argues. The chances of success for a coalition in the city are debatable. Eventually the city may have enough voters for a third group, especially if they pick up support from traditional Independent voters no longer bound by the bonds of patronage and tradition...
Side one's first selection--"TV Set"--perfectly demonstrates this principle: a straight slice of rocking blues, with a sweeping crescendo of an opening fit for the King himself. The sheer crunch of two guitars with nothing to anchor them to the rhythm boggles. More often than not, all three instrumentalists seem to play a note or more apart, creating more sonic splash than a complete collection of Carl Perkins records. The middle eight finds either Ivy or Gregory imitating the sound of static on a portable radio as you switch from one station to the next...
...Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty details of time and space that he rises above...